Recording device



RR N H D G m 3 00 M AR m d o M 0 W No. 533,473. Patented Feb. 5, 1895.

INVENTOI? W Jun/144, 7 6 ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES n'rnnr @rrrcn.

ADRIAN O. KINTNER, OF BEDFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

RECORDlNG DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 533,473, dated February5, 1895.

Applicat-ion filed May 3, 1894. Serial No. 509,924- (No model.)

To caZZ whom it nmy concern.-

Be it known that I, ADRIAN O. KINTNER, of Bedford, in the county ofBedford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and ImprovedRecording Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved recordingdevice, designed for accurately recording the variation of a time-pieceand the date of setting and regulating the same, so as to enable awatchmaker or the owner of the time-piece to keep a complete record ofits correctness during a certain period.

The invention consists of certain parts and details, and combinations ofthe same, as will be fullydescribed hereinafter and then pointed out inthe claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a face view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a transversesection of the same on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectionalside elevation of the same on the line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is asectional rear view of the same on the line 4-4 of Fig. 8; and Fig. 5

is a face view of a ring indicating the monthsof the year.

The improved recording device is mounted on a suitably constructed plateA, formed in its face with a recess A, in which is fastened by setscrews or other means, the dial 13, formed with two graduations B and Barranged in a circle, as is plainly shown in Fig. 1. The graduation Bindicates the days of the month, and the graduation B indicates secondsfor recording the extent the timepiece is fast or slow.

On the graduations Band B indicate the pointers orhands U and Drespectively, both mounted loosely on a. pivot E held centrally in thedial B and pressed on at its end by a spring plate F fitted in a recessB in the back of the said dial B, as shown in Fig. 4. The ends of thisspring plate F rest on the under side of aring Gformed on its face withpoints numbered consecutively and indicating the months of the year, aswill be readily understood by reference to Figs. 1 and 3. This ring G ismounted to turn on the back of the dial B, and can be readily shifted bythe operator, so as to indicate the month of the year on the edge of thecut-out portion B of the dial B. See Fig. 1.

Now it will be seen that the operator, in regulating the watch ortime-piece, can find whether it is'gaining or losing time and set thehand or pointer D accordingly and also move the hand or pointer O to theday of the month at the time of the observation, and then shift the ringG so as to indicate the month of year, at the cut-out portion of thedial B. For instance, if the time-piece is five seconds slow then thehand 1) is set, as shown in Fig. 1, to five seconds slow on thegraduation B and if the observation were made on the 10th day of May,then the hand 0 is moved and the ring G is shifted as shown in Fig. 1,to indicate the 10th day of May. After a lapse of time the hands D and Oand the ring G are again shifted and a second observation is made. Itwill therefore be seen that a record is provided of the variation of thewatch or time-piece which was five seconds slow on the 10th of May, andthe operator can ascertain at the next observation whetherthe timepieceis still running slow, or whether, since the last regulation (10th ofMay), it may be running fast. Therefore knowing how the timepiece hasbeen running fast or slow,,

during the two periods of time, the operator or watch maker can the moreaccurately regulate the timepiece.

The device also enables the watch maker or owner to more accuratelyregulate the timepiece, and do it quickly, having record of thevariations for two periods of time, fast or slow.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- A recording device, comprising a dial providedwith an opening and two fixed segmental graduations arranged at oppositesides of the dial, pointers pivoted to the dial and adapted to indicateon the said graduations, a ring mounted to turn on the pointer pivot andprovided with indications adapted to appear in the opening of the dial,and a spring plate for holding the ring to the dial, substantially asdescribed.

ADRIAN O. KIN TN ER.

Witnesses:

WM. S. REED, JAcoB REED.

